TY - GEN
T1 - Ontology-based representation of meta-design in designing decision workflows
AU - Wang, Ru
AU - Wang, Guoxin
AU - Yan, Yan
AU - Sabeghi, Maryam
AU - Ming, Zhenjun
AU - Allen, Janet K.
AU - Mistree, Farrokh
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ASME.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Utilizing the enterprise capital related the knowledge of design processes has become a crucial to improve enterprise agility and respond to shifts or changes in markets. The complexity and uncertainty of design processes raise the challenge of capturing tacit knowledge and the ability to provide assistance in designing design processes. In this paper, an ontology is proposed for capturing, representing and documenting the knowledge related to hierarchical decision workflows in the meta-design of complex engineered systems. The ontology is developed in the context of Decision Support Problem Technique (DSPT), taking into account the requirements being able to guide assistance in designing design workflows, and integrating problem, product and process information in a design decision-making process. Then, the method of building procedure and design of process templates are presented to facilitate the reuse of the populated template instances in future design. Finally, the meta-design of the heat exchanger in a small thermal system is presented as an example to illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.
AB - Utilizing the enterprise capital related the knowledge of design processes has become a crucial to improve enterprise agility and respond to shifts or changes in markets. The complexity and uncertainty of design processes raise the challenge of capturing tacit knowledge and the ability to provide assistance in designing design processes. In this paper, an ontology is proposed for capturing, representing and documenting the knowledge related to hierarchical decision workflows in the meta-design of complex engineered systems. The ontology is developed in the context of Decision Support Problem Technique (DSPT), taking into account the requirements being able to guide assistance in designing design workflows, and integrating problem, product and process information in a design decision-making process. Then, the method of building procedure and design of process templates are presented to facilitate the reuse of the populated template instances in future design. Finally, the meta-design of the heat exchanger in a small thermal system is presented as an example to illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.
KW - Decision support problem technique
KW - Decision workflows
KW - Heat exchanger design
KW - Meta-design
KW - Ontology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85034771862&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/DETC2017-67817
DO - 10.1115/DETC2017-67817
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85034771862
T3 - Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference
BT - 37th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE 2017
Y2 - 6 August 2017 through 9 August 2017
ER -